Ealph beownson



(NQMOGGL) R. BRO'WNSON.

FLY NET FOR HORSES I No. 321,884. Patented July 7, 1885.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RALPH BROWNSON, OF ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNOB OF ONE-HALF TO PETER R. L. HARDENBERGH, OF SAME PLACE.

FLY-NET FORYHORSES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 321,884, dated July 7, 1885.

Application filed November 25, 1884. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RALPH BROWNSON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of St. Paul, in the county of Ramsey, in the State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fly-Nets for Horses, of which the following specification is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being also had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a view of a section of a net. Fig. 2 is a view of one of the links as it appears after being cut and before its removal from the surrounding leather. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one of the links detached and opened out.

This invention consists in a series of separate links out in a peculiar manner from small pieces of otherwise useless leather, and then connected together to form a web or net for horses and other animals. Each of the links is cut at one blow by a knife or implement formed with a blade or series of blades fastened in a head-block and adapted to cut through the leather, as shown in Fig. 2. The cutter may be formed of a single strip of thin steel, sharp 011 its lower edge, and with its upper edge fitting into a groove in a head block. The blade commences at a point, a, and runs up and is bent around at b, and thence back to the point a, and thence around at 0, and up again and around at the point d, and thence down around again at e, and thence up and around at g, (the space between 9 and d being wider than the space between the points a and e,) and thence down again to a point, h, and thence inward against that part of the blade between the points d and 6. Three smaller cutters or punches will be set in the head-block to cut out the small parts i 17 6 In Fig. 2 one of the links is shown cut from a small scrap, B, of leather. After being cut out, the link will be opened out, as shown in Fig. 3, the two ends a h being brought together at the right and the curved part c being at the left, the slot i being at the top,

while the curved part b will be at the bottom. By this means all the turns of the links are large curves, so that the links are of equal strength in all parts. Asufficient number of these links being cut, the parts I) of one set are passed through the slots 03 of the contiguous set, while the parts 6 of one set are passed through the holes 2" i of the ends a h of the adjoining set. By this means a web may be formed of any desired size, as shown in Fig.

1. At one end of the net the parts I) are passed through suitable holes in a strap, D, while a similar strap will be passed through the slots i of the end links at the other end of the net, the straps thus forming bindings or supports to the ends of the net. A center strap, E, is also arranged as shown in Fig. 1, the links on one side being merely reversed in position, so that the parts e of the rows of links next to the center-strap may be passed through holes at in the strap. To each link in the last row on the sides the usual strings are attached, to hang down below the horse. Thus a complete net will be formed from scraps of otherwise useless leather, except the straps Having described my invention and set forth its merits, what I claim is- 1. A link for forming a. fiy-net web, cut from leather in a single piece, with curved and doubled parts I; d e, and with parts 0 h 9, respectively provided with slots '5 2' i substantially as herein shown and described.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, a fly-net for horses having its web formed of links out from leather in single pieces, each with curved parts b d e and slotted parts a h g, substantially as shown and described, the said links being interwoven, substantially as herein shown and specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

RALPH BROWNSON.

Witnesses:

LOUIS FEEsER, Sn, H. O. RUTHERFORD. 

